Pedagogical Experiments
June 11–15, 2025
Mansarda Gallery, Faculty of Arts and Design – UVT
Pedagogical Experiments is an exhibition that traces the visible and invisible thread of an experimental educational legacy, crystallized by the Sigma Group in Timișoara during the 1970s–1980s at the Fine Arts High School, and organically continued through generations of artist-teachers and students of today’s Faculty of Arts and Design in Timișoara.
The Sigma Group developed a pedagogical model inspired by the Bauhaus School, promoting several key principles in both their artistic practice and their teaching: collaboration (teamwork), interdisciplinarity, experimentation, the study of nature, functionality, and the use of new materials and technologies.
The exhibition proposes a mapping of these direct and indirect educational paths, now reflected in the works of students who, although coming from different generations and study programs, reveal a shared concern for experimentation, visual research, process, and constructive development.
Works coordinated by: Daniela Catona, Liliana Popa, Silvia Trion, Luisa Palade, Hedy M-Kiss, Mădălin Mărienuț, Vică Adorian, Eniko Szucz, Andreea Palade Flondor
Concept: Andreea Palade Flondor, Gabriela Robeci
Graphic Design: Claudia Feti
Project carried out through the Center for Research in Decorative Arts and Design (CCCADD) and the Center for Research in Curatorship, Art History and Criticism, Heritage Studies (CICASP)
Exhibited works
Eurotales
Concept program (Blended Intensive Programme): Assoc. Prof. Dr. Andreea Palade Flondor
The initiation of an interdisciplinary collaborative project began with the invitation to participate in the Eurofabrique Cluj project, later continued in Paris, and pursued several key ideas: identity, sustainability, process-based thinking, an investigative approach, breaking barriers and preconceptions, and embracing one’s own culture.
A wide range of forms and modes of expression—from exploration through photographic and digital media to weaving or sewing techniques, as well as architectural constructions—enabled the progressive, in situ development of an immersive installation with multiple levels of perception.
Over 40 participants from 5 faculties in Romania, France, Italy, and Portugal.
Eurotales 1
December 5–10, 2023
Eurofabrique 2, Collaborative Creativity Workshop
@Mushuroi Creative Hub, Cluj-Napoca
Coordinators: Andreea Palade Flondor, Andreea Pleșa, Mirjam Spoolder, Laura Tettamanzi, Rafaela Norogrando, Olivier David
FAD-UVT Participants: Andreea Pleșa, Mihaela Vișovan, Evelina Tănasie, Bogdan Matei, Mario Birdean, Erin Gregor, Ema Năstase, Andrada Negru, Georgiana Panescu, Raul Pașcalău
Video: Georgiana Panescu, 2nd-year Master’s student, Fashion Design – Textile Design
Eurotales 2
February 7–11, 2024
Eurofabrique at EU-TOPIA
La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris
Coordinators: Andreea Palade Flondor, Andreea Pleșa, Mirjam Spoolder, Laura Tettamanzi, Rafaela Norogrando, Caroline Loss
FAD-UVT Participants: Mihaela Vișovan, Evelina Tănasie, Bogdan Matei, Mario Birdean, Erin Gregor, Ema Năstase, Andrada Negru, Georgiana Panescu, Raul Pașcalău
Video: Georgiana Panescu, 2nd-year Master’s student, Fashion Design – Textile Design